Elon Musk Reminisces First Failed Launch Of Falcon 1 From 18 Yrs Ago After Historic Polaris Dawn Mission
Elon Musk Reminisces First Failed Launch Of Falcon 1 From 18 Yrs Ago After Historic Polaris Dawn Mission
It has been 18 years since the first Falcon flight of Falcon 1 failed pic.twitter.com/Ha6ynd8crySpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Monday reminisced about the first failed launch attempt of the company's Falcon 1 launch vehicle after the Polaris Dawn crew landed safely back to Earth in a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft after conducting the first-ever commercial spacewalk.
spacex(臨時代碼)首席執行官埃隆·馬斯克週一在polaris公司黎明機組安全返回地球后發表了關於公司獵鷹1號運載火箭首次失敗發射的回憶，此前這支隊伍曾在進行首次商業太空行走後在一艘spacex(臨時代碼)龍飛船上着陸。
What Happened: "It has been 18 years since the first Falcon flight of Falcon 1 failed," Musk wrote on the social media platform X. The post was accompanied by a photo collage of two images side-by-side.
發生了什麼：「獵鷹1號的第一次飛行失敗已經過去了18年，」馬斯克在社交媒體平台X上寫道。這篇發帖配有兩幅並排的照片。
While one image shows Musk sitting by the debris from a failed Falcon 1 launch, the other shows an astronaut conducting the first commercial spacewalk as part of the recent Polaris Dawn mission to space.
一幅照片顯示了馬斯克坐在獵鷹1號失敗發射的殘骸旁邊，另一幅顯示了宇航員進行首次商業太空行走的場景，這是最近的polaris公司黎明任務的一部分。
It has been 18 years since the first Falcon flight of Falcon 1 failed pic.twitter.com/Ha6ynd8cry
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 16, 2024
獵鷹1號的首次飛行失敗已經過去了18年 pic.twitter.com/Ha6ynd8cry
— 埃隆·馬斯克 (@elonmusk) 2024年9月16日
SpaceX attempted its first launch of the Falcon 1 in 2006 which failed. It failed again in March 2007 and then again in August 2008. After three consecutive failures to launch, the team was low on cash but had a spare vehicle. The team worked on it and eventually, the first successful launch came in the second half of 2008— on Sept.28.
spacex(臨時代碼)於2006年嘗試了獵鷹1號的首次發射，但失敗了。它於2007年3月再次失敗，然後在2008年8月再次失敗。在連續三次發射失敗後，團隊資金緊張，但有一輛備用飛行器。團隊對此進行了修復，最終在2008年下半年實現了第一次成功發射—即9月28日。
"If the fourth one had not succeeded, SpaceX would not exist. It was a very close call," Musk previously said about the fourth launch attempt.
「如果第四次發射沒有成功，spacex(臨時代碼)就不會存在了。那是一個非常危急的情況，」馬斯克曾經說過關於第四次發射嘗試。
Why It Matters: SpaceX has come a long way since.
爲什麼重要：自那以後，spacex(臨時代碼)已經取得了長足的進步。
The Musk-led company completed 67 missions using its Falcon launch vehicles as of the end of the second quarter, with its Falcon 9 workhorse alone accounting for 66 launches. The company is looking to launch 144 times in 2024, averaging twelve times per month.
截至第二季度末，由馬斯克領導的公司已使用其獵鷹運載火箭完成了67次任務，其中獵鷹9號工作馬甲就獨自佔據了66次發射。該公司計劃在2024年發射144次，平均每月12次。
Last week, four commercial astronauts were launched into space by SpaceX's Falcon 9. The company's Dragon spacecraft and the four-member crew spent about 5 days in space before returning to Earth on Sunday. The crew also conducted a spacewalk at about an altitude of 738 km on Thursday, marking the first-ever commercial spacewalk.
上週，四位商業宇航員乘坐 spacex的獵鷹9號火箭進入太空。這艘載人龍飛船和四名乘員在太空停留了大約5天，然後在週日返回地球。乘員還在週四進行了一次高度約爲738公里的太空行走，這是商業航天史上首次進行的太空行走。
While space agency NASA routinely conducts extravehicular activities with government astronauts, no commercial spaceflight companies or astronauts have attempted it before, making this a landmark achievement for SpaceX.
儘管美國航天局常規地與政府宇航員進行太空行走，但商業太空飛行公司或宇航員以前從未嘗試過，這使得這次 spacex的成就成爲具有里程碑意義。
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